Book — Montreal-born Moishe Wolofsky was a nineteen year-old unemployed university drop-out in 1930 when he and his friend Dick Steele took a job aboard an ocean vessel, beginning a journey that...
Book — ...landscape. These critical excursions provide analysis of and insight into the way new media technologies change the workings of social engagement for personal expression, social interaction, and political engagement. The...
Book — ...By the end of the decade, having tested the possibility of creating a revolutionary party in Britain almost to the point of its own destruction, the ILP was much diminished—although,...
Contributor — Julie Rak is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alberta. Her current work explores the links between the public sphere, auto/biography, and popular culture in Canada and the...
Book — ...Alicia Adlington, Shaily Bhola, Denise Carew, Jane Costello, Daph Crane, Jane Hanson, Michael Fairbrother, Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, Shehzad Ghani, Michele Jacobsen, Carol Johnson, Sawsen Lakhal, Yang (Flora) Liu, Dorothea Nelson, Pam...
Book — What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains...
Book — ...never-ending 24-hour news cycle has resulted in a never-ending political campaign. The implications of this new political style and its impact on political discourse are issues vigorously debated in this...
Book — ...des choses. Il cible intentionnellement un grand public : les décideurs, les journalistes, les groupes de défense des libertés civiles, les enseignants et, par-dessus tout, les lecteurs du grand public....
Blog — Athabasca University Press has been giving books away for free for over ten years. In 2007, we took advantage of the internet to disrupt traditional publishing systems and break down...
Blog — ...controversial figure. Many Internet sites are devoted to debunking his image and refuting his claims. When one reads the numerous pages about global warming on the David Suzuki Foundation website,...